Dont count your chickens before they hat
Contributors to this thread:Mule Deer
From: Goelk
20-Oct-24
Dont count your chickens before they hatch
Dont count your chickens before they hatch
From: Goelk
20-Oct-24
I had a 18 yard shot at a doe didnt see the branch LOL
From: Corax_latrans
20-Oct-24
Keep after ‘em!
At least you hit something that you overlooked. Can’t very well claim I didn’t see this one!
From: samman
21-Oct-24
I have a shot like that too. Still have nightmares about it 3 years later.
From: DanaC
21-Oct-24
Yup. 8 foot wide lane, one skinny little peckerpole in the middle.10-ringed that sucker.
Watched a buddy, on a 3-D course, decided he needed to shoot from a bit off the lane to work on his 'brush shots'. Drilled a 1 inch sapling. Decided he needed a second try, drilled it again, an inch lower. The rest of the group was howling ;-)
From: air leak
21-Oct-24
Should have let those trees walk, needed another year..
From: APauls
21-Oct-24
That's an expensive method to tap trees.
From: Corax_latrans
21-Oct-24
And many years ago I skipped one blade off the side of a 2” lodgepole when I swung on a bull at about 7 yards.
Fortunately only the tree got so much as a scratch….
From: Bob H in NH
21-Oct-24
Mulie buck, spent 35 minutes getting from 80 to 34 yards, then split the 20 and 30 yard pins. We'll crap
From: bowhunter24
21-Oct-24
114" my guess
From: HUNT MAN
21-Oct-24
Dam trees . This one saved a bears life.
From: JTreeman
21-Oct-24
—Jim
From: Corax_latrans
21-Oct-24
Believe it or not, I did this one on purpose…..
Believe it or not, I did this one on purpose…..
What kind of broadheads are you guys shooting to blow so much bark off of those poor, defenseless trees???
And are they leaving good sap trails for you?
From: LUNG$HOT
21-Oct-24
This was last year’s trophy tree I tagged!
This was last year’s trophy tree I tagged!
From: Scoot
21-Oct-24
Good job guys! Some dang nice ones in there. I'm impressed with the diverse sizes and kinds of trees you have shot.
From: Bowfreak
21-Oct-24
I would post to this thread but I am the typical internet bowhunter who never misses. :)
From: DanaC
21-Oct-24
Waiting for someone to claim that the 6.5 Creed is big medicine for saplings...
From: JohnMC
21-Oct-24
I recommend any eye doctor if you didn't see that. That's not a branch that a whole tree that fell over. ;)
From: JohnMC
21-Oct-24
From: Goelk
21-Oct-24
Bowfreak LOL Well im glad i have lots of company.
From: Treeline
21-Oct-24
This one from elk season… damn! That was a nice bull, too!
From: Chuckster
21-Oct-24
JohnMC, you got a story behind that pic?
From: Corax_latrans
21-Oct-24
Damn, Treeline — what’s your poundage?? (Was that tree dead or alive??)
From: Duke
21-Oct-24
Some dandies in there! I would imagine spot and stalk is best on critters like these!? Stay after em!
Duke
From: Bowfinatic
21-Oct-24
That tree needed another year
From: JohnMC
21-Oct-24
CBA jamboree an 80 yard shot across a valley with a tree in the bottom
From: Treeline
21-Oct-24
It was a live one… probably a Booner! 47 pounds drove that Iron Will pretty deep. Thankfully was able to dig it out…
From: Corax_latrans
21-Oct-24
For an Iron Will, I think I’d find my way back with an axe! LOL
I found my way back to the same tree this year, but I’m leaving it there for Posterity…. ;) An Iron Will would justify a Rescue Mission….
I’m just trying to make sense of the bark blowing off when I got over 2 1/2” of penetration on my Aspen without blowing off so much bark.. ‘Cuz you SANK dat Muddah….
From: badbull
22-Oct-24
Many years ago I missed a good bull elk that I called in at no more than three feet. He came straight in and stopped between two aspen with head lowered almost to ground level as if he was trying to scent me in this aspen grove. I think that my fletching hit the edge of one of the Aspen and sent the arrow into another aspen ten yards beyond the bull burying the broadhead just like Treeline's photo. I hink that it was a four blade Satellite shot from my Mathews at 76 lbs. I have killed a few trees but this one hurts the most as this thread title certainly applies in this case.
From: longsprings
22-Oct-24
Heck , I need more info on this trophy tree huntin. Do you need preference points to draw or can you OTC the license? Thanks for sharing
From: DanaC
22-Oct-24
IBO shoot 5 years ago.
From: DanaC
22-Oct-24
To be sure, I was shooting left that day...
From: goelk
23-Oct-24
LOL Non Resident have to applied next year no OTC tags
